BREAKING —Nearly 500 @Amazon & @Google workers just joined forces to demand *both* companies cut their contract to provide cloud services to Israel's apartheid gov & military

Read their joint letter in the @guardian here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Here’s why this is HISTORIC ⬇️
This past summer — while the Israeli military leveled residential buildings and clinics in Gaza, killing 248 Palestinians (including over 60 children) that week alone — @Amazon & @Google announced their new cloud contract with the Israeli government: #ProjectNimbus
Among other things, Project Nimbus will power Israeli apartheid. Workers don't want to build tech that will power violence and human rights abuses against Palestinians

Their #1 ask? For @Amazon + @Google to stop doing business with Israeli apartheid
You should read their letter in its entirety, but this speaks for itself:

“We cannot look the other way as the products we build are used to deny Palestinians their basic rights, force Palestinians out of their homes, and attack Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
Tech workers making sure their tech isn’t used to facilitate harm and colonial violence is history-making.

So is the prospect of some of the world’s biggest companies @amazon @google being pressured to stop doing business with apartheid states.
Again, their letter in the @guardian is here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Read it, retweet it, and pass it on. /thread

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